Important takeouts:
Retail traders are actively purchasing BTC price dips in the spot and in the futures market, but net sales from larger order investors are hampering a robust price recovery.
The $105,000 risk for another liquidation cascade appears to be low, but investor sentiment is incorrectly adjusted for trends seen in the cumulative volume data cohort.
Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) are recovering and are attempting to recover the price ranges each cryptocurrency lost during the sharp sales seen on Saturday and Sunday. Bitcoin price rose just 2.4% from $108,665, but ETH has been better, rising 8.26%, up 8.26% from Monday’s low at $4,663.
The data shows the assortment of traders buying dip, but BTC prices are stuck in downtrends. A fixed cumulative volume delta (aggregation) of cohorts considered as retailers (1k-10k) indicates that these entities will purchase net purchases net through Sunday through Wednesday modifications.
Whale and facility-sized traders (1 million to 10 million) were net sellers in the same time frame, but as the chart shows, sales strength subsided as they revived the zone with a BTC price of $111,000.
Looking at the CVD data in more detail, Binance’s Bitcoin spot and permanent futures market retailers open longs across the dip, while whales and institutional-sized traders were net sellers.
Coinbase Bitcoin Spot Market retailers are also active, reaching $11.253 million in net purchases, and the Coinbase and Binance institutional investors cohort were net sellers who dropped off about $7.5 billion with the PERPS market depicted.
Takeout appears to be thinking that while whales dominate sales pressure across the market, retail and medium-sized players are trying to provide price support, buying Bitcoin with discount ratings or returning to the $117,000-$118,000 range on a quick average return. Nevertheless, Bitcoin continues to suffer from short-term downtrends despite positive and small CVDs at Binance and Coinbase.
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$120,000 or $105,000, which one comes first?
Liquidation heatmap data from High Block shows Bitcoin absorption bids in the $111,000-$110,000 area during weekend sales, with another cluster presenting near $104,000.
While a breakdown to the lowest liquidity cluster seems unlikely, the current dynamics of large orders far beyond the retail cohort continue to put pressure on BTC prices.
Traders hoping for a period of integration should carefully observe fixed, aggregated daily CVDs to see if this selling pressure is eased and whether such changes in volume coincide with changing feelings among investors.
This article does not include investment advice or recommendations. All investment and trading movements include risk and readers must do their own research when making decisions.
